Re: support for advanced gnuplot features (was: Plotting semi-trasnparent patches?)

[Ben Abbott]

On Friday, January 30, 2009, at 11:08AM, "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden> wrote:
>On 29-Jan-2009, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
>| On Thursday, January 29, 2009, at 02:50PM, "Ben Abbott" <address@hidden> 
>wrote:
>| >On Thursday, January 29, 2009, at 11:05AM, "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden> 
>wrote:
>| >>On 29-Jan-2009, Ben Abbott wrote:
>| >>
>| >>| Ok, I found the problem. Try the attached version.
>| >>
>| >>This doesn't apply to the current tip on savannah.  Will you please
>| >>update the patch so that it will apply cleanly?  Also, please omit the
>| >>part of the patch that changes endif to end.
>| >>
>| >
>| >ok, I pulled from Savannah, reconciled my changes and produce a new 
>changeset.
>| >
>| >Ben
>| >
>| 
>| ... and this time with the missing simicolon :-(
>
>OK, the strange behavior seems to be gone now, so I applied this
>changeset.
>
>I still think this will generate some complaints when people switch to
>the newer gnuplot, so we may have to disable it (or come up with some
>way that the position is ignored unless explicitly set by the user)
>unless we have a way to update the position if the window moves.
>
>Thanks,
>
>jwe

I looked at how ginput works, and have asked the gnuplot developers if the same 
can be done for the window size & position or for the x11 window id.

In the event it needs to be disabled, __gnuplot_has_feature__ would be a nice 
place to do so. Perhaps we should extend that function to turn features off?

Ben